Chapter 0457: Siege
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The undead are really coming!
And the first to lead the team was the Blood Demon who had lived in Rasmufer City for a while.
As the main force of this attack, nearly 700 junior vampires turned into the nightmare Grim Reaper of the dark elves, completely obscuring their reconnaissance and temptation outside the city, and turning all those who dared to sneak out of the city into shriveled corpses.
Using the vampires' swift movement, they not only blocked the upper entrance, but also cut off the lower entrance, turning Rasmufer City into a lonely city.
Just two days after the vampire team completed its scheduled mission, the follow-up troops of the entire cemetery were belatedly arriving.
As a large number of lickers and ghosts swarmed out of the tunnels, the vampires' masking task was handed over to them, and the scattered vampires gathered again and followed behind their leader, the Bloodfiend.
Due to the narrowness of the area, those undead knights who are good at charging in wide space do not appear, and the massive cannon fodder lickers are followed by slow-moving corpse witches and terrifying necromancers who protect them with their team.
The cemetery's command center is located in a dissolution hall 300 meters away from the main gate of Rasmufer. The terrain here is open and close to the city gate, as long as some obstructive stalagmites, stone pillars, and dripping rocks are broken and removed, it is a natural campsite.
The presiding officer of the meeting is, of course, Li Xun, who is the master of the cemetery, and those who can participate in this high-level pre-war meeting are the veteran cemetery heroes Younu, the Blood Demon, the new dragon lich Uzel and Dogosos, and the representative of the undead mercenary, the white bone skeleton mage Haka, and the soulbinding demon Karon.
In addition, there were also the blood half-hero Hera, the leader of the Undercity mage group, the high-ranking corpse witch Jacob, and the banshee leader Delores......
At the beginning of the meeting, under the joint efforts of the ten corpse witches, a vivid and equal scale light and shadow illusion was sketched in the center of the venue, and the three-dimensional structure of the city of Drow not far away was presented in the center of light and shadow.
In the past two years, although the Dark City seems to have not moved, the Shadow Killer who is scattered in all the surrounding areas has explored the terrain and landforms of the shallow layer of the entire Dark City, and has drawn a detailed three-dimensional topographic map. Although due to geological changes, in some parts, the entire topographic map cannot completely mark all the tunnels, tunnels, and caves, but the general topographic information is still reliable.
And Rasmufer City, as the closest gathering place of aliens to the Dark City, infiltrates and monitors it to the point of pervasiveness.
From this panoramic view of Rasmufer City, it can be seen that except for the residence of several Drow families and the internal situation of the academy that trains warriors, priests, and mages, other information can be seen at a glance.
From the distribution of the stationing of the top families in the city, as well as the hoarding area of the main forces of the Drow, the living quarters of the enslaved races in the city, to some garrison points, small passes, and the most heavily defended areas that may hinder the subsequent slaughter of the city......
In charge of the detailed introduction is the new leader of the Undercity Mage Regiment, the high-ranking corpse witch Jacob. Each time he introduces an area, it is lit up in the topographic map and enlarged. After listening to his basic description of the outer city defense of Drow City, the high-level officials of the cemetery present couldn't help but feel a dark chill in their hearts, and they couldn't help but accept the many contempt for the dark elves.
If it were only based on normal offensive and defensive warfare, this small marginal city that was not ranked at all in the city of Zhuoer would still be a fortified fortress that could not be easily overtaken by foreigners.
As an underground city, there is no so-called sky here, so the many bats and demons in the cemetery have become pure decorations. If you want to attack the city, you must take out a large amount of cannon fodder to smash the enemy's heavily guarded stone walls. The most uncomfortable thing is that the underground city is not like the surface city, as long as you break open a city gate, there is an undefended inner city behind it.
The gates of the underground city are entirely composed of zigzag tunnels and tunnels, and on both sides of these passages, at the corners and tops of the stone walls, there are hidden firing ports opened by the drows. The cannon fodder who wanted to siege the city could not charge here, but also had to endure the conspiracy of crossbow arrows from unknown sources, and once the number of deaths was too large, the corpse of the enemy after death became the biggest obstacle to the enemy's next attack.
The city gate of Drow is a death passage composed of 5 pure gold gates, and all the city defense facilities are cut out of the stone wall, and they are not afraid of fire, smoke, poison gas and other means. There is also a flameburst between the gates, which is completely unafraid of the enemy's fuel-adding attacks, and can also cut off the enemy's attack rhythm and slow down the enemy's attack speed when critical.
However, the biggest headache for the undead is that the popularity of magic weapons in Drow's team is too high. In addition to powerful magical equipment, magic scrolls, adamantite weapons, enchanted weapons, alchemy potions and other war aids are essential for all members, which gives them the possibility of killing high-level undead efficiently.
Even if it is a graveyard creature as high as 6th order, once it is trapped in the passage, it can be wiped out by the Drow warrior's Adamantite Crossbow Arrows and Demon Breaker Crossbow Arrows, not to mention that those Drow priests and priests who oversee the war have the magic of overcoming the undead.
After listening to Jacques's introduction, the faces of all the high-level officials of the cemetery became a little ugly.
They had gathered here today for a feast, not to use their heads to smash into the underground rock formations, which are known to be as hard as steel, and not to use their bodies to test the quality of the Drow's weapons. Judging from the tight defense of the city of Drow, I am afraid that they will not be able to open a passage to the interior with the power of cannon fodder before they exhaust their weapon resources.
In this way, it is estimated that it is difficult to sustain the consumption in the early stage with only the licker.
So everyone's eyes couldn't help but glance at Delores, the leader of the phantom and banshee. As far as the major races in the field are concerned, only the two of them are suitable for skirmishes in this kind of narrow and boring terrain.
At this time, the two women had no reason to back down and refuse, so they could only stand up and take the initiative to ask for orders to open the way for the cemetery legion.
Li Xun readily agreed.
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Half an hour later, the war began at the same time at the three gates of Rasmufer.
The swarming lickers who climbed and jumped like the tide looked like maggots from a distance, and almost all of a sudden occupied all areas in front of the city gate.
Even on the most rugged and bumpy tunnel walls, lickers can jump freely, and the sharp claws on their limbs rub dazzling sparks against the dark rock walls, interspersed with the agility and agility that normal creatures cannot have.
The sound of a clanging bowstring flicking came from all the small fist-sized firing ports on the front of the city gate, and nearly a hundred pure gold crossbow arrows rained down head-on. The first wave of lickers immediately shook nearly 40 of their bodies, and the bouncing movement was somewhat distorted, and only 17 of them died by hitting their fragile brains on the spot.
Although the Drow warriors possessed excellent shooting skills, their shooting range was limited, and the "ghoul" on the opposite side had a swift body that far exceeded the legend, so nearly half of the crossbow bolts in the first wave missed. And those that hit, as long as they are not fatal with a single hit, can hardly have much impact on the undead creature like the Licker.
Taking advantage of the short time that the enemy had to change their bolts, a larger group of lickers rushed forward. However, to the surprise of the undead commander, Drow's second wave of crossbow bolts burst out again only after 3 fingers.
This time, due to the closer distance, the hit rate quickly reached 70%. Immediately, more than 30 more lickers lost control, and they pulled a dull blood mark on the hard stone floor along the way.
There was no hissing, no wailing, the only thing in the room was the sound of the bowstring bouncing and the muffled sound of popping into the flesh.
The undead creatures are not afraid of death and do not care about the impact of morale, which is vividly displayed in this battle.
Instead of trying to get into the labyrinthine tunnels or ram the gold-plated steel gates, the lickers who had managed to break through the blockade and approach the city's fire-resistant vents did not attempt to penetrate the one-meter-thick and gold-plated steel gates, but used their bodies to block the firing ports at all parts of the gates.
The fist-sized hole couldn't get them in, so they screamed and groped with their sharp claws, or popped out their long, kinetic tongues, desperately stabbing inside. The whole process did not dodge the continuous crossbow arrows that kept shooting from inside.
With their cover, the lickers who pounced on them could pour into the pit unimpeded, and go straight to the thick and desperate steel gate.
With the continuous "bang" sound, the hidden firing ports in various parts of the tunnel have also been opened one after another, and the crossbow arrows fired at close range can often penetrate the fragile bodies of multiple lickers in succession. Near the city gate, a firing port on the top wall was filled with the sound of a chanting of a mantra, and then a fireball exploded among the lickers crowded in front of the steel gate.
Compared to the Adamantite Crossbow Arrow, magic is clearly a great weapon of death on the battlefield. With such a simple fireball technique, 14 lickers were caught in the flames in an instant.
At this time, the Drow warriors, who were already a little uncontrollable, took out the spell scrolls they had distributed, and used the power of magic to instantly empty the ugly undead near their shooting ports.
For a time, the entire city gate area was filled with a piercing roar of explosions and dazzling flashes of red.
In less than half an hour, nearly half of the lickers who poured into the city's fire force were strangled, and the rest were also scarred, while Drow was almost unscathed except for a few unlucky ghosts who were slightly injured.
In this way, if the frustrating situation of not being able to defeat the enemy, but only being beaten, is placed on the human army, it will inevitably be a great demoralization and unstable morale. After all, it is the victories and rewards that can be expected that inspire an army to fight bravely, not the fearless spirit of dying.
However, this setback was ineffective against the Cemetery Army, and almost at the same time that the first Licker troops were suffering extensive damage, the second Lickers had already swarmed in. They leaped nimbly, leaping through the blockade of crossbow arrows, through the unquenched flames of magic, and once again into the flesh pit filled with a rich pungent aura.
The battle has just begun!
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