This terrible chase seems to soon devour this small team, whether it is the knights from the capital, or the soldiers who have been conscripted, a life recovered from the walls of the Boulder City after a short delay After all, he gradually approached the embrace of death—Mitchell looked at the distant scene through the observation port at the rear of the carriage, and saw hundreds of cluster giants getting closer. These huge humanoid creatures with a height of three meters The momentum of the swarm charge even surpassed that of the royal knights, and the arcane lightning they released frequently spanned the entire battlefield, constantly hitting the shield of the chariot...
Farther away, there are large swaths of rising smoke and dust, and each piece of smoke and dust means that a new wave of pursuers is rapidly approaching.
Then, a strange flash of light fell from the sky.
It was some kind of extremely fast flying object, even with the vision of an extraordinary person, it could barely capture a trace of its trajectory. It was surrounded by a light green gleam, flying from the direction of the Gorgon River, passing over the hills and wilderness, Fell into the smoke and dust in the distance.
In the next second, a terrifying explosion flash and even more terrifying thunder almost tore the eardrums of Mitchell and the soldiers.
Countless shattered limbs and crystals were thrown into the sky in the flash of the explosion. The terrible shock wave even pushed all the surface protrusions with a radius of nearly 100 meters. The ground was shaking violently. Even at such a long distance, Mitchell could It was clear that there were slight ripples on the shield outside the chariot.
Immediately afterwards, more flashes of light appeared in the sky, accompanied by some kind of sharp sound, falling in the distance one after another.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The big explosions of landslides and landslides sounded one after another. Every flash and every explosion seemed to be a meteorite strike in the middle of the crystal cluster army. I don’t know how many monsters were turned into dust under this terrible attack. Can Mitchell Only one thing is certain - the pursuit of the druse army is falling apart.
The Cecil soldiers driving the vehicles and controlling the weapons obviously knew that this amazing "sky fire" would appear, and they didn't panic at all. When the first big explosion fell, the soldiers cooperated tacitly and entered the next step to get rid of the pursuit. In the first stage, they began to manipulate the weapons installed on the vehicle to clean up the chasing cluster giants, and dropped a large number of explosive magic props called crystal grenades behind the vehicle, and at the same time began to move in the direction of the Gorgon River.
During this whole process, Mitchell was most worried about those attacks falling from the sky—they were so powerful that Mr. Knight was absolutely sure that even if an attack fell on the side of the convoy, his body would be destroyed. They were distributed in a random area with a radius of 100 meters in an instant, but it turned out that his worries were unnecessary: Those attacks obviously deliberately kept a safe distance from the convoy, and the latest one was hundreds of meters away.
Everything seems to have been rehearsed countless times.
Even the druse giant, fearless of pain and lacking human emotion, would retreat under such an attack-this battle of pursuit and breakout finally ended in a beam of energy swept from the direction of the Gorgon River, that terrifying The light beam cut across the battlefield and continued to burn the ground with a buzzing sound, leaving behind a nearly molten trench tens of meters wide, and the crystal cluster giants who were afraid of the high temperature had to disperse and retreat.
After that, there will be no more waves on the road.
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On the 35th of the Moon of Recovery, the inland warship "Pioneer", which was the first to go to the north, successfully completed the rendezvous with the advance team of the Iron Rangers. Relying on the support of powerful naval guns, the Knights of Byron eliminated a group of soldiers moving south from the giant log crossing. The cluster giants, and then the fleet temporarily docked on the river bank of the rich forest in the north of Pompeii. After using the close-in artillery to open up a safe landing field, the landing force and the advance team of the Iron Rangers established in the Lemburg area on the west side of the rich forest. base.
At the same time, the ground troops led by Gao Wen and Philip also advanced from the land to the fertile forest. After assisting the advance team to clear away the remaining crystal cluster legions on the periphery, the ground passage from the southern border to the theater was opened. From the fortress to Lemburg, the river and ground roads were finally unimpeded, and the supply line was formally established.
With the "Steel Ambassador" as the node, the temporary fence connected by prefabricated concrete walls and steel barricades winds and connects near the river bank. Heavily armed soldiers stare at the north from the sentry posts. A large number of reinforced tents and prefabricated houses are neatly arranged. Arranged sequentially in the base, the vehicles transporting materials and personnel are constantly coming in and out of this frontline base, sending weapons, equipment and personnel supplies from the southern border here, and sending the contaminated samples collected from the frontline and Some of the rescued refugees were continuously sent to the temporary laboratories and refugee camps in the rear, where they were very busy.
The magic car that Gawain and Amber were riding on drove into the base smoothly. Through the window on one side, they saw a half-collapsed castle not far away that was still emitting smoke and dust. Part of the broken city wall of the castle was part of the base wall. Connected together, on the uncollapsed structure of the castle, you can see that the towering crystal relay tower has been erected, and the signal gain device is slowly rotating under the drive of the mechanical platform, sweeping across the gray sky.
The half-collapsed castle is "Renburg", and its full name should be Rumbel-Kerry Castle. It is a fief directly under the royal family in the Holy Spirit Plain. The castle and the entire surrounding fertile woodland were once one of the important sources of income for the Moen family. , although the status of this fortress and surrounding territories has been reduced due to damage after the "Brumaire Civil Disturbance", it is still the most affluent land in the southeast of the Holy Spirit Plain.
But that was once.
When the troops arrived here, the crystal cluster pollution had spread into the fertile forest, and the lord here had most likely died on the northern battlefield. The remaining knights and soldiers stationed in the castle resisted for a few hours and then fled in all directions. , some of the civilians on the land were polluted by clusters, and some fled into the nearby wasteland—during the establishment of the landing site, the shelling of the Pioneer destroyed the lost castle and burned the polluted woodland. Now this The wealthy area has become one of the symbols of this disaster, reminding visitors of the coming of war with the crumbling city walls and the lingering smell of burnt air.
The vehicle passed the isolation area on the east side of the base. Across a row of fences, a dozen or so ragged civilians were staring at the "steel monster" passing by not far away. They were still in shock, but not far behind them, more civilians were queuing up to receive food and medicine under the command of soldiers—maintaining an order based on numbness.
Amber glanced over the civilians who were waiting to receive food and medicine behind the fence, with sympathy on her face: "I'm afraid these people still don't understand what happened..."
"When the knight in the castle fled without saying anything, he left the whole area behind," Gawain said. "Philip has sent people to find survivors nearby and establish a quarantine area, but the society in this area Order has been severely disrupted, and it may be difficult to restore it in a few years."
Amber pursed her lips, but she knew that compared to the north where the situation was even worse, this place was already considered lucky—the cluster infected people who entered the Lunburg area were just some wandering stragglers, and the damage caused was not enough to completely destroy the entire area , the fall of the town and the large number of refugees were mainly caused by the premature escape of the knights in the castle, which caused the monsters who entered this area to swagger into the city with little resistance—but correspondingly, those who escaped from the city There are also a lot of civilians, and the towns in the eastern part of Lemburg have not suffered much damage.
As long as the crystal clusters are annihilated and the refugees gathered, at least there is hope for reconstruction here.
After feeling emotional, Amber said: "Through blood and magical examinations, nearly a hundred infected carriers have been found. They still maintain a human body, but they have a divine energy reaction. According to your order, these people have been sent to the Quarantine camps in Pompeii."
"Let the person in charge over there keep close monitoring, and take care of them as much as possible while ensuring that the infection will not spread," Gao Wen confessed earnestly, and finally breathed out slightly, "As long as they haven't turned into monsters, you can Treatment cannot be given up."
Amber glanced at Gao Wen: "To be honest, I was quite worried about what would happen if you ordered to kill all the infected people..."
Gawain glanced at the half-elf: "You think I'm someone who can give such orders?"
"It doesn't feel like it either, but you also said that to maximize value—from the perspective of cost and safety, killing all infected people should be the most 'cost-effective'..."
"If you really want to do this, you can't figure it out," Gao Wen shook his head, "Even if people's lives and people's hearts are not considered, those infected who have been infected with the gods but have not mutated are precious samples. They can make technology Personnel understand the means by which all things will die, and our hope of understanding this disaster and ending this disaster may lie in those infected. Pittman and Kamel have rushed to Pompeii, and it may not be long before they will Find the secret of the death of all things in those infected."
Amber raised her eyebrows: "You really are more calculating than me."
Gao Wen smiled and said nothing more.
In the face of such a disaster, he really has to calculate seriously, but he can't simply count human lives as numbers. He also needs to consider the future development after the war, the maintenance of social order, the gains and losses of people's hearts, the writing of the historian, and at the same time, he must also consider finding ways to fight disasters from the infected, and how to save more people. —A ruthless commander may only count heads, but a ruler counts more than that.
He raised his head and looked north through the crystal glass inlaid on the car door.
…
The cluster giant Cloade withdrew his gaze to the south.
The troops that had entered the Lemburg area - albeit improvised stragglers - were wiped out in such a short time.
Due to the distance limitation, he couldn't clearly "see" what happened to the teams responsible for the southward expansion, but from the limited signal, he could still perceive the explosion on hundreds of cluster giants at that moment The high temperature and scorching heat, as well as the bursts of thunderous illusory loud noises, this may be some kind of extremely powerful magic attack, and there is a high probability that multiple legendary-level mages have entered the battlefield...
Whatever the reason, this is something to be vigilant about.
Reminiscent of not long ago, another team ordered to destroy the invaders also suffered an incomprehensible violent blow and suffered heavy losses in a short period of time. Cloade thought that those Cecilians wandering from the southern border were not easy to deal with. I am afraid that we have already prepared for this war.
Although the legion is powerful, you must also be careful of powerful enemies from behind.
After this operation is over, it is necessary to return to Red Maple City to remind the Dean from the core of the church.
As for now, it is still time to focus on the battlefield in front of you.
Cloade raised his head, and the scene inside the Boulder City was reflected in his crystal eyeballs—this city was almost destroyed by the legion, and more than 80% of the area was turned into ruins, but a lingering snowstorm enveloped it for the last time. In the castle area, the countless razor-like ice skates and the deadly cold air made it difficult for the druse giants to move forward.
Master Heaton ordered the Legion to take its castle district within three days.
Cloade actually had a slight disdain for this order—although he recognized the absolute authority of the headmaster, he knew that the headmaster didn't understand military strategy. He was just a powerful dark druid, and his spells might be powerful. But he had never fought at all, and Cloade himself was once one of the best aristocratic officers of the Eastern Legion.
Of course, those days are over, but the accumulated experience of those days is still useful.
As a person who often dealt with the battlefield, Cloade knew that morale and soldiers were not enough to capture the castle in front of him. The last mountain corps and the powerful "Queen of the North" had a geographical advantage and occupied the castle area magic net, and a magician at the legendary level is very good at managing his own energy. With a stable casting environment and a steady stream of external magic power support, the "Queen of the North" relied on some auxiliary magic tools, It could even keep the blizzard around the castle going for a whole month - and the castle had enough supplies in store to keep her and her legions going much longer than that.
But it doesn't matter, Cloade has his own good way.
An excavation team has already set off and is digging a tunnel along the blind corner on the west side of the castle. The leader of the excavation team... is the original lord of Boulder City.
Of course, that Mr. Lord has now embraced evolution and become a member of the new era.
Under the leadership of the former lord, the excavation team will attack the fortress protected by the blizzard from underground.
But they definitely couldn't just break into the inner courtyard of the castle, and they couldn't kill Victoria Wilde inside or destroy the powerful mountain army. An enchantment is set up around the casting area. As long as the tunnel is dug near Victoria, the digging team will definitely be exposed in an instant.
Their real mission... is to destroy the magic net nodes underground in the outer area of the castle, destroy the integrity of the magic net, and cut off the magic power of the "Queen of the North".
Only the lord of Boulder City knows the location of each magic net node, because those magic nets are set up by the lord, and although Victoria Wilde is the Duke Regent, he may not know what is in the house of the lord of Boulder City detail…
Cloade stared at the seemingly never-ending blizzard in the castle area, a smile slowly appeared on his face.
In his vague mental perception, he could sense that the digging team was still alive and digging deeper.
The former Earl Cloade of the East Territory, today's giant commander turned around, and casually ordered the subordinates beside him: "Attack when the blizzard stops."