Chapter 952: Confluence (I)
Inside the county of Codoro.
Bad news came from the city wall one after another, and if this continued, it would not be long before the defenders of the city would have to fight with the swarms, because the city walls could not be defended at all.
Not to mention how many people are still alive after this battle, the street fighting will cause heavy losses to Khodo County, and the population and wealth will be greatly lost.
The news of any unusual movements in the Swamp of the Dead had been reported a long time ago, but Lopwen never gave any response, neither sending people to reconnoiter nor sending troops to support, but instead transferred half of the city guards.
The city lord who was in charge of managing Khodo County didn't have any good options, and he was very dissatisfied with the Lopwen military headquarters that had transferred the city guards.
He is similar to the mayor, with executive power, no military power, no right to rebel against the Lopwen military department.
All he could do now was to use the magic amplified horn to mobilize the inhabitants of the city to help defend the city and transport supplies according to the requirements of the generals in charge of defending the city on the city walls.
He had already prepared for the worst, and even the weapons of self-defense that were rationed to the residents were issued, and whether Kodo County could hold on could only depend on whether the reinforcements of Lopwen came quickly enough, and whether God would give him face.
The residents of the city also knew the news that the guards had been transferred, and the soldiers who were supposed to protect themselves were transferred, and they happened to be in danger, so you can imagine how much the residents were in their hearts.
At the same time, a rumor spreads among the crowd, and no matter how many versions there are of it, it roughly expresses only one meaning.
'It was the idea of the council to transfer the guards'
Although not many people will pay attention to the rumors at the time of the crisis, when everything calms down, it will become a powerful force.
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It was not only Kodo County that was attacked, but all the counties, villages and towns close to the swamp of the dead were attacked to varying degrees, even Kodo County, which is known as the 'Seventeen Counties Gateway', was difficult to parry, and the other counties were even more miserable, and the small villages outside had even been razed to the ground by the swarms.
The only fortunate thing is that the abnormalities in the Swamp of the Dead have long been noticed by the county of Kodo, although the high-level of Lopwen did not give instructions, the seventeen counties in the north have made some countermeasures in private, and sent people to monitor the outer area of the swamp of the dead early.
By the time the swarm began to attack, except for the villages that were too remote, the refugees had basically been contained, and there were not many casualties.
It's just that they couldn't hold out for long, and for a while, the call for help flew like snowflakes to Lopwen.
And at this time, the troops led by King Lionheart's eldest son, Willard, were also attacked.
But the difference was that it wasn't the biters who attacked them, it was Lopwen's soldiers.
Due to the surprise attack of the Knights of Steel Back last night, the team was split in two with only about 300 people left, and Willard had most of the players and a dozen soldiers who originally belonged to the city of Naua.
And now, in the face of the army pressed by Lopven, there are still people who can move, or simply say that they are still alive, there are less than forty people in total, including the players.
They also know they have to break through, but is that easy?
The troops are like travelers stuck in a swamp, the more they struggle, the deeper they sink.
"Lion Swallow Feet!"
Ren Dingshengtian kicked towards the approaching Lopwen army, and the strong strength directly swept a platoon, but the effect it could play was also a drop in the bucket.
He touched the liquid on his head, which he didn't know if it was sweat or blood, and looked left and right, and found that the only exit had also been eliminated by the soldiers who had surrounded him.
They are like rats in a panic that have fallen into a big pocket called a 'siege net', and it is only a matter of time before they are completely annihilated.
Having said that, Clement is not good at fighting, but Willard, the eldest son of King Lionheart, is a veritable good fighter, even if the two are scattered due to the attack of the Knights of Steel Back last night, they can still communicate with each other through text messages, wouldn't it be better to let Willard specify a battle plan, why turn to Ann Yizhi?
The reason is that Willard is dying......
In the circle of more than forty people, there was a rudimentary means of movement that could only be described as a wheelbarrow, and on it lay a pale young man in armor.
He was the eldest son of King Lionheart, Willard.
He was injured a lot by last night's attack, and now he is in a coma, and if the priest of the Temple of Dawn is here, he may have a way to cure him with healing spells, but only the player who can escape can heal the spells, and the grade is not high.
Willard is too badly injured, and NPCs are not like the player, no matter how big the wound is, as long as he is not dead, he can regenerate a bottle of red blood, all the player can do is try to slow down Willard's bleeding speed and delay his death.
Blue, who had also been separated from Red in last night's attack, sighed, there was not much magic left in his body, and he was one of the key factors that had allowed the team of only forty people to survive until now.
It was also he who used the high-level gods to protect the golden shield of the sun god to block the rain of arrows before the infantry of the Lopwen army pressed in, Blue is not good at healing spells, high-level healing spells are very chicken for current players, not only the overflow consumption of treatment is also very large, far less than the D, E-level healing techniques have a market.
As he said, all he could do was delay Willard's death.
But it doesn't matter, because it won't be long before they are wiped out by the Lopven army, and it doesn't matter then.
Not far from him, Gru and other ranged players who were fighting with bows and arrows had drawn their bows until their fingers were almost unconscious, and their arrows were decreasing at an irreversible rate.
At this time, with the accompaniment of the truqin, the female singing voice came, and the players suddenly felt a little more strength in their bodies out of thin air, and the physical strength and magic recovery speed were also greatly enhanced.
This is a marching song, a magical ability that belongs to the bard.
The voice singing in a rousing tune came from a girl on the side of the carriage, who was playing and singing while holding the truss.
She is another factor that the team has been able to hold on to until now, and she is also the last person in the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, Zhenshan Yan.
After a minor tune, Zhenshan Yan put down the truqin, took out a turquoise transverse flute from his waist, and played a completely different music.
The voice can't be described as unpleasant or nice, it can only be said to be very weird, which makes people's hearts chill and goosebumps all over their bodies.
And when the music drifted to the side of the Lopwen army, it had a very big impact.
The soldiers who had been pressed in attacked each other as if they were enchanted, and the scene was chaotic for a while.
Ecstasy, which is also an exclusive ability only for bards.
In terms of wide range control, they are more suitable and better at it than mages.
It's just that it's not easy to learn a certain piece of music with special effects, in addition to requiring the player to know how to play it themselves, but also to play it well enough, and the effect of the music mainly depends on how well it is played.
This excludes most players who want to learn magic music, at least a guy like Ann who can't even play the recorder taught in elementary school will definitely not be able to play.
Taking advantage of the time when Lopvin's army was in chaos, the team used the victory of man as an assault arrow, and once again advanced less than 100 meters towards the weak area, and then had to stop.
Magic Songs do work, but the biggest drawback is not the cost, but the cooldown.
Therefore, Zhenshan Yan had no way to repeat the old tricks, and in the face of the Luo Puwen army that was slowly pressed in with the 'Iron Wall Array', she could only change other music to add buffs to her teammates.
"Lion's roarβ"
The fighting spirit is like a rainbow, and people choose the target to win the day and smash it hard.
"-Burst Array!"
This was his most powerful skill, and the area he hit collapsed neatly as if it had been bombarded, and dozens of soldiers were smashed into the air like rag dolls.
Under the effect of the buff, Ren Dingshengtian can activate this kind of ultimate move many times, and if he wants to break through personally, it will be difficult for the Lopwen army to stop him.
It's just that if you take your teammates with you, it's an impossible task.
The soldiers of Lopwen who were full of wails at their feet, and Ren Dingshengtian saw batch after batch of soldiers forming an iron wall formation slowly pressing in, even if they used their ultimates many times, they still did not affect the morale of the other party in the slightest.
In order to prevent the lords of the thirteen northern counties from supporting their own troops, the soldiers were all mobile, similar to 'iron battalions, flowing soldiers'.
These soldiers are just drawn from the city guards of various counties, but in fact, they are all veterans who have fought on the front line of the battlefield.
Lopwen transferred some veterans back to defend the city, and then let the new recruits and veterans fight in a mixed formation on the front line, so that not only can ensure the combat effectiveness of the army to the greatest extent, but also leave the fire for the army as much as possible, without fear of the elimination of a certain army as a formation, resulting in the decline of the overall combat effectiveness of the Lopwen army.
It is precisely because of this that the soldiers in front of them are inferior to the regular army only in terms of equipment, but in fact they are superior to the regular army in terms of morale and ability.
On all sides, Lopwen's soldiers opened the Iron Wall and pressed into the formation, as if to crush them completely.
The rebellion of the other players is just a wave in the waves, although it is not completely useless, but it has no impression of the overall situation, and in the blink of an eye, it will be completely drowned by the waves.
Looks like I'm going to die here today......
People are not afraid of death, although losing 25% of the experience is a bit painful, but it is not a big deal for the player to die once.
It's just that he's not reconciled.
He wasn't online when Naua's city fell, and by the time he was online, it was all over.
Chase the player who tried to seek revenge on the magic melody in the second pinnacle tournament, but was killed by Ogg in a crushing attitude.
Even the two sons who have come to the aid of Lionheart have only found someone under the leadership of the traffic light trio, and it seems that he has not helped much.